Definition of Brachiopods

1. Noun. (plural of brachiopod) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Brachiopods

1. brachiopod [n] - See also: brachiopod

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brachiopods

brachiocephalic arteritis
brachiocephalic muscle
brachiocephalic trunk
brachiocephalic vein
brachiocephalic veins
brachiocrural
brachiocubital
brachioganoidei
brachiogram
brachiolaria
brachiolarias
brachiologia
brachiopod
brachiopoda
brachiopodous
brachiopods (current term)
brachioradial muscle
brachioradial reflex
brachioradialis
brachiosaur
brachiosaurid
brachiosaurs
brachiosaurus
brachiosauruses
brachistochrone
brachistochrones
brachium
brachium colliculi inferioris

Literary usage of Brachiopods

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"Preponderance of large brachiopods.—More than half of all the known species of the Oriskany fauna are brachiopods.1 Their most obvious feature was their ..."

2. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"Laws of Evolution indicated by History of brachiopods.—We have now gained a sufficient knowledge of the characters of brachiopods to enable us to consider ..."

3. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1866)
"Among Mollusks: Bryozoans, brachiopods,* ... apart from the pallium or mantle; and hence brachiopods are often called ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1901)
"Morse has enumerated twenty-four characteristics in which brachiopods resemble more or less closely Vermes, sedentary annelids and ..."

5. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1903)
"MORSE ON LIVING brachiopods. ... Paleontologists have long lamented that so little has been published on the habits of living brachiopods, and Morse remarks ..."

6. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1883)
"The following communications were made to the Society : (1) On certain points in tht anatomy of brachiopods. By WH CALDWELL, BA The knowledge of the ..."

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